Amilia Bon

Amilia Bon is an editor and BD at StartupFortune, where she finds and covers independent founders building products worth knowing about. She focuses on early-stage launches, indie makers, and the kind of software that solves a specific problem quietly and well. She also runs StartupFortune's X account at x.com/Startup_Fortune.

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Amilia Bon · Jun 3, 2026 · 1:50 AM

Gively Lets the Seller Choose Which Nonprofit Gets a Cut of Every Sale

Built by Esmeralda and Lucas in Toulouse, Gively is a French solidarity marketplace where sellers list second-hand items and choose which nonprofit receives a share of the sale - putting the social impact decision in the hands of the person making it.

Amilia Bon · Jun 3, 2026 · 1:48 AM

School Timetables Are Still Built by Hand Academic Scheduler Automates the Conflict Detection

Built after observing how much time school administrators spend untangling teacher, room, and subject conflicts when building timetables manually, Academic Scheduler is a web-based platform that detects scheduling conflicts automatically and generates accurate timetables significantly faster.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 8:12 PM

The Instagram Story Has the Music Humm Captures the Actual Vibe Score

Built by Abhijai after noticing that the background music in Instagram stories reflects the poster's mood rather than the real acoustic experience of being at a place, Humm lets users capture and share a live vibe score - recorded on-location - alongside their photos and videos.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 8:07 PM

Instagram Saves Were Never Meant to Be a Library Reelpin Turns Them Into One

Built by Chetan after watching useful Instagram discoveries - restaurants, travel spots, recipes, creator tips - get buried inside collections nobody can search, Reelpin turns saved posts into a personal library with AI-generated summaries, searchable context, and map pins for location-based content.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 8:05 PM

The Control Panel for AI Coding Agents That No Single Vendor Will Build for Its Competitors

Built by Aadil Ghani after hitting the ceiling of running parallel AI coding agents and drowning in approval fatigue, Pushary is a vendor-neutral control panel that routes decisions - not code - from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Hermes to your phone, with per-tool policy you set once and a kill switch that works while your laptop sleeps.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 8:00 PM

The env File Pasted Into Slack Is the Secret That Never Gets Deleted - JustEnv Is Built Around That Problem

Built by Fora after watching developers routinely share plaintext .env files over Slack and DMs where they sit undeleted indefinitely, JustEnv is a native Mac app that encrypts environment variables on-device and shares them via links that expire or burn after one open - no accounts, no CLI, no infrastructure.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 4:40 PM

CyberSek Is India's Security Awareness Platform Built by People Who Actually Break Into Systems

A team of offensive security researchers built a combined security awareness training and VAPT platform for Indian businesses - because most security content is made by content creators, not penetration testers.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 4:24 PM

leaf Makes Markdown Actually Readable Inside the Terminal

A developer from Madagascar built a terminal-based Markdown viewer after AI coding tools kept flooding his command line with content he had no comfortable way to read.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 3:45 PM

CogniFocus Catches You Mid-Scroll During a Focus Session That Is the Entire Point

A software engineer frustrated with passive focus timers built an app that actually reacts when attention slips - complete with a chaotic accountability character called the Goblin.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 3:31 PM

Evermore Puts Couples, Vendors, and Guests on the Same Platform So No One Needs Five Apps

A founder tired of watching couples juggle spreadsheets, messaging apps, and vendor directories built an all-in-one platform that connects couples, guests, and vendors across the full lifecycle of a celebration.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 3:26 PM

The Salon Manager Who Could Not Find a Simple Staff Time-Off Tool Built One Himself

A salon manager who spent years juggling departments left short-staffed built a simple time-off management app because he could not find what he needed anywhere.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 3:13 PM

BulkImagen Turns a Spreadsheet Into Hundreds of AI Images Delivered as a Single ZIP

A developer built a batch image generation tool that turns a CSV into hundreds of AI-generated images delivered as a ZIP - because ChatGPT and Gemini were never built for scale.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 3:10 PM

PosturePerfect Watches Your Posture Without Watching You

A developer tired of cloud-based posture trackers built a 100% local alternative - no server, no storage, no privacy trade-off.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 2:48 PM

The App That Grew From One Embarrassing Kitchen Moment Into a Calm Mind Wisdom Platform

A founder built a calm mind wisdom app not from a business idea, but from a moment of embarrassment that made her want to understand herself better.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 2:35 AM

BiteBuddy AI Handles Restaurant Phone Calls and Drops Orders Directly Into the POS

Built by Adeel after watching his dad lose revenue answering phones during rush at his restaurant, BiteBuddy is an AI phone agent that takes orders and reservations instantly and integrates directly with Clover, Square, Toast, and other POS systems.

Amilia Bon · Jun 2, 2026 · 1:31 AM

Coffee Piano Lets Musicians Explore Harmony Through Visual Chord Maps and Reharmonization

Built by Jaime, Coffee Piano is a browser-based music tool that combines harmony exploration, reharmonization, visual chord maps, and MIDI support to help musicians hear, see, and understand how chord progressions work.